Last week, NSW announced a 25-year minimum sentence for intimate partner murders but it’s not mandatory. Judges can still hand down less. So what’s really changed?

We’re constantly made to celebrate half-measures.

I’m sure Tabitha Acret believes her daughter Mackenzie’s life was worth more than 25 years, but given the 15-year minimum her murderer received, this feels like a win. I respect the work she’s doing to push NSW reforms nationally  particularly on preventative measures.

But here in Victoria - the crime state - we’re still waiting.
The government promised stalking reforms in Celeste’s name - they too were supposed to be preventative measures - five years on, nothing’s changed.
No reforms. No electronic monitoring. No justice.

The truth is governments keep offering symbolic reforms and we’re expected to settle for them. That’s not justice - that’s politics.

My daughter Celeste’s life was worth more than the 30-year minimum her murderer received so to me, 25 years just won’t cut it.

Our children’s lives are worth more than what they tell us - they’re priceless!

This fight began with the murder of my daughter but it’s about justice for every life taken. Every daughter. Every son.

My call for mandatory life sentences for murder has never been gender specific or context based because justice shouldn’t depend on gender or circumstance.

If I’d lost my son instead of my daughter, I’d feel exactly the same.

A Life for a Life.

Murder is murder - regardless of stalking, intimate partner, home invasion, if you take a life, expect life. No exceptions.

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Because “almost justice” isn’t justice at all.